Christina Rossetti Quotes

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.